{"id":189134,"date":"2012-05-17T08:46:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=189134"},"modified":"2012-05-18T09:26:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:26:50","slug":"cooks-trial-to-remain-in-smith-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=189134","title":{"rendered":"Cook&#8217;s Trial to Remain in Smith County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=189135\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-189135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/05\/Kerry-Max-Cook-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kerry-Max-Cook-1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-189135\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 A judge has denied Kerry Max Cook\u2019s request to move his case out of Smith County. According to KETK, he\u2019s trying to prove he did not murder Linda Joe Edwards, Tyler, in 1997. Cook wants new DNA testing in hopes of being formally declared innocent. Judge Christi Kennedy will take on Cook\u2019s case. Cook believes he won\u2019t get a fair trial because Judge Kennedy\u2019s husband worked for former prosecutor, Jack Skeen, who originally sent Cook to death row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 A judge has denied Kerry Max Cook\u2019s request to move his case out of Smith County. According to KETK, he\u2019s trying to prove he did not murder Linda Joe Edwards, Tyler, in 1997. Cook wants new DNA testing in hopes of being formally declared innocent. Judge Christi Kennedy will take on Cook\u2019s case. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=189134\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cook&#8217;s Trial to Remain in Smith County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 08:36:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189134"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189483,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189134\/revisions\/189483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}